The world is all the richer for having a devil in it so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
William JamesThe reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
Alan WattsIt is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel JohnsonWriters write to influence their readers their preachers their auditors but always at bottom to be more themselves.
Aldous HuxleyIt takes two to get one in trouble.
Mae WestTo the wise life is a problem, to the fool a solution
Marcus AureliusI could as a free man look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
Frederick DouglassThe man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard ShawIf there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Leo Tolstoy